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3.8 KiB
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83 lines
3.8 KiB
Markdown
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Touch
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System Specific Notes
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Linux:
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The linux touch system is currently based off event streams, and proc/bus/devices. The active user must be given permissions to read /dev/input/TOUCHDEVICE, where TOUCHDEVICE is the event stream for your device. Currently only Wacom tablets are supported. If you have an unsupported tablet contact me at jim.tla+sdl_touch@gmail.com and I will help you get support for it.
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Mac:
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The Mac and iPhone APIs are pretty. If your touch device supports them then you'll be fine. If it doesn't, then there isn't much we can do.
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iPhone:
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Works out of box.
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Windows:
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Unfortunately there is no windows support as of yet. Support for Windows 7 is planned, but we currently have no way to test. If you have a Windows 7 WM_TOUCH supported device, and are willing to help test please contact me at jim.tla+sdl_touch@gmail.com
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Events
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SDL_EVENT_FINGER_DOWN:
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Sent when a finger (or stylus) is placed on a touch device.
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Fields:
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* event.tfinger.touchId - the Id of the touch device.
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* event.tfinger.fingerId - the Id of the finger which just went down.
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* event.tfinger.x - the x coordinate of the touch (0..1)
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* event.tfinger.y - the y coordinate of the touch (0..1)
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* event.tfinger.pressure - the pressure of the touch (0..1)
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SDL_EVENT_FINGER_MOTION:
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Sent when a finger (or stylus) is moved on the touch device.
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Same as SDL_EVENT_FINGER_DOWN but with additional:
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* event.tfinger.dx - change in x coordinate during this motion event.
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* event.tfinger.dy - change in y coordinate during this motion event.
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SDL_EVENT_FINGER_UP:
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Sent when a finger (or stylus) is lifted from the touch device.
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Fields:
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Same as SDL_EVENT_FINGER_DOWN.
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Functions
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SDL provides the ability to access the underlying SDL_Finger structures.
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These structures should _never_ be modified.
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The following functions are included from SDL_touch.h
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Devices are tracked by instance ID, of type SDL_TouchID.
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To get a list of available device SDL_TouchID values, call SDL_GetTouchDevices().
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This returns an array of device IDs, terminated by a zero ID. Optionally, you can
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get a count of IDs by passing a non-NULL int* to SDL_GetTouchDevices() if you'd
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rather not iterate the whole array to get this number.
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A SDL_TouchID may be used to get pointers to SDL_Finger.
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SDL_GetNumTouchFingers(touchID) may be used to get the number of fingers currently down on the device.
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The most common reason to access SDL_Finger is to query the fingers outside the event. In most cases accessing the fingers is using the event. This would be accomplished by code like the following:
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float x = event.tfinger.x;
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float y = event.tfinger.y;
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To get a SDL_Finger, call SDL_GetTouchFinger(SDL_TouchID touchID, int index), where touchID is a SDL_TouchID, and index is the requested finger.
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This returns a SDL_Finger *, or NULL if the finger does not exist, or has been removed.
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A SDL_Finger is guaranteed to be persistent for the duration of a touch, but it will be de-allocated as soon as the finger is removed. This occurs when the SDL_EVENT_FINGER_UP event is _added_ to the event queue, and thus _before_ the SDL_EVENT_FINGER_UP event is polled.
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As a result, be very careful to check for NULL return values.
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A SDL_Finger has the following fields:
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* x, y:
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The current coordinates of the touch.
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* pressure:
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The pressure of the touch.
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Please direct questions/comments to:
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jim.tla+sdl_touch@gmail.com
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(original author, API was changed since)
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